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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Charlie Chaplin In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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